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I know some of you have some good hind sight stories. A couple of years ago I spotted a '58 1 ton behind an old barn. The land owner was clearing the lot and tearing the old house down. You couldn't see any of this before. I drove this way to work every day so I stopped in and he gave me the truck. The truck was pretty much trash but when I opened the hood there sit the original, very clean 261. I noticed the captains bars on the block. I drug it home and the usual battle with the wife started. You guys know the one "Don't drag another piece of crap home again". I never listen. I put a new condensor in rigged up a fuel line and tank from a lawn mower and it ran very smooth. I even drove it around the yard for a little. I didn't have anything to put the engine in and caved in to the wife and sold the whole thing on the internet to a guy in Maryland for $300. Now I wish I had kept the engine. I couldn't find one now to save me. Sure would have been nice to have put it in a '46 since I'm looking for one.

Mike

Hi, Mike

I know the feeling well. I rebuilt a 400 sbc engine and a th350 to go in a '73 ElCamino to drive back to work my last year before retirement. When I moved to north Ga. I brought it with me but didn't drive it. The engine and tranny only had 7K miles on it and ran beautiful. I sold the vehicle for 1,000 dollars and now I could use the drive train in one of my trucks and could have put in one of my old motors and still got the same amount for the ElCamino. Same old story, you get rid of something and you will surely need it the next day or near future.

Truck Tinker

let me add to the sad stories - growing up i had a 1949 ford, sold for junk, 1949 packard with everything on it - no rust-perfect chrome etc - let the motor freeze up and sold for $35.00, 55 chevy - totaled that one out - 1958 ford convertable w/392 engine used by the okla hw patrol at the time - traded for a 61 chevy belair to drive to college-sold for $100 to help pay college expenses - next vehicle was a 65 gto with all the bells and whistles - sold for a $1000 to a good friend when i got married. how many times can a man shoot himself in the foot!! sure like to have what those cars are worth now.

YEP ID THAT TO WHEN i LIVED IN CALIFORNIA i BOUGHT A 68 F#$D,MUSTANG ,CALIFORNIA SPECIAL MODEL...THE ONE WITH THE SCOOPS ON THE SIDE FROM AN OLD SCHOOL TEACHER. SOLD IT FOR 400.00,BECAUSE IT OVERHEATED IN ANEHIEM ,BEING YOUNG AND PENNILESS,FOUND OUT TEN YEARS LATER JUST 5000 OR SO WERE MADE..

I passed up buying a DeLorean in good shape for cheap, because I was going to college and figured a pickup truck would be more practical. It was, but I could have drove a DeLorean to college. I wish I was more adventuresome.